Class

Description

This course is sponsored by the Scrum Foundation and will be taught by Jeff Sutherland, Co-Creator of Scrum, and Gabrielle Benefield.

Jeff invented Scrum at Easel Corporation in 1993 and worked with Scrum Co-Creator Ken Schwaber, to formalize the Scrum development process at OOPSLA’95. In 2001, Jeff and Ken were signatories of the Agile Manifesto. You will hear directly from one of the founders of Agile software development on how to implement best practices in your organization.

Overview

This hands-on, interactive two-day course will teach you:

· How to be an effective ScrumMaster
· Improve teamwork
· Launch products sooner
· Improve engineering practices to deliver high-quality products

Upon successful completion of this course, each participant will be enrolled as a Certified ScrumMaster, which includes a one-year Scrum Alliance membership, where additional ScrumMaster-only material and information is available. You can also receive 16 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for this course.

The course will Run 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please arrive at 8:30 each day for a continental breakfast. Participants are welcome to consult our list of recommended reading:

Before the class participants should read The Scrum Guide (downloadable for free here) or The Power of Scrum by Jeff Sutherland as we require you know the basic definitions of Scrum. For further suggestions please visit Agile Lean Training Recommended Reading. Of course, there will be updated material and training exercises in the course which you cannot get from books.

About the Instructors:

Jeff Sutherland is the co-creator of Scrum and a leading expert on how the framework has evolved to meet the needs of today’s business. The methodology he developed in 1993 and formalized in 1995 with Ken Schwaber has since been adopted by the vast majority of software development companies around the world. But Jeff realized that the benefits of Scrum are not limited to software and product development. He has adapted this successful strategy for several other industries including: Finance, healthcare, higher education and telecom.

As the CEO of Scrum Inc. and the Senior Advisor and Agile Coach to OpenView Venture Partners, Jeff sets the vision for success with Scrum. He continues to share best practices with organizations around the globe and has written extensively on Scrum rules and methods. With a deep understanding of business process — gleaned from years as CTO/CEO of eleven different software companies — Jeff is able to describe the high level organizational benefits of Scrum and what it takes to create hyperproductive teams.

Gabrielle Benefield was Senior Director of Agile Development at Yahoo! leading Yahoo!’s large-scale corporate adoption of Scrum, which encompassed more than 200 team projects and over 1500 employees in the US, India, Europe, and Asia. She is co-author of The Scrum Primer (www.scrumprimer.com), the most widely read introductory guide to Scrum available and became the 12th Certified Scrum Trainer in the world, being personally certified by Ken Schwaber. Gabrielle provides training and coaching in many Agile and Lean methodologies.

Audience

Applicable to all levels and roles including Managers, Designers, Developers, Testers, Executives, Project Managers and IT.

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